Wow....

One of my lifetime ambitions was achieved last year. I have lots of recordings by the 'Academy of St Martin in the Fields', the big church on Trafalgar Square, London; and at the age of 10, formed an ambition to sing there.

I achieved it in July 2004, with the Mozart Requiem... what a piece!!!

Trouble was, I was having a bad spell with my heart so didn't really appreciate it. This year, we're doing the Mozart Coronation Mass, a favourite piece of mine, and I'm bloody well going to enjoy every note of it!!

I was lucky enough to live in an area where woodpeckers weren't unusual, so I've seen Greater and Lesser Spotted (red and black) and Green woodpeckers.

Whilst walking in The Undercliff
at Lyme Regis about 20 years ago, the sun was blotted out by what looked like a door coming down off the overcliff.... it was a buzzard - we were too close to her nest and she wanted to warn us off.... That was a special moment in ornithology... just an eagle to see and I'll be happy.

LTS